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Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Dipping my large toe into 28mm American Civil War.

As stated before I've started to dabble in 28mm ACW skirmish with a touch of Outlaw Josey Wales and a smidgen of madness, I've started with the Perry Miniatures plastic infantry sets but added the metal command set (not my favourites the plastic but as the budgie said "Cheap"!).

The main unit is 28th Massachusetts Regiment, 4th Irish Brigade (had to be Irish!), some casualties (I have a weird fixation with casualty figures, there's even more to come!) and a 9pdr artillery piece, everything is from Perry Miniatures except the limber which is from Dixon Miniatures.

Very nice mate. I was wondering when we'd see these painted up. Next to WWII the ACW is my favourite period (which is why I like our 15mm Fire & Fury games so much). Looking forward to playing a game with these....you know, before you get bored and flog em!

Good start! Your thoughts mirror my own for delving into this period: skirmish all the way and Perry plastics ('cause it's so damn pretty cheap) but a few metals for good measure.Looking forward to your further progress.

Very nice! I guess there was a dispraportionate number of wounds on the left side (foot forward for firing) of the body.

If you go west you can have some natives. And if I recall correctly, I think Texas had some lancers as well. The Comanche were very active in Texas, and it is very fortunate for the United States that they had already over expanded and crashed back in population (1840s or so) by the time U.S. expansion met them full on. Pekka Hämäläinen on the Comanche Empire is the most groundbreaking in this area.

Why are the other Rejects so convinced you'll sell them so quick? Get a few games in at least. The time and effort you have invested in them they deserve it. Other than that they look really good and will look even better once you have wone the first game with them.

Very nice figures, and I particularly like that almost-black of the blue coats and kepis. I achieved something like that on a couple of my arty figures once, liked the look, and was never able to replicate it.

If you're looking at ACW in the West - lets say, Trans-Mississippi - you might consider reading J.T. Edson's 'Dusty Fog' Civil War stories. He's a bit pro-South (Mr D. Fog is a Texican o'course), and the writing and story-telling style a tad ... odd, but they do have their points of interest. I think I still have 'You're in command now, Mr. Fog' kicking around here somewhere...

Nice work Fran... hey I just noticed that with the addition of these figs the number of posts labelled 28mm is 111 the emergency number for New Zealand... perhaps its a sign that you should be careful around ray as someone is going to get hurt (there's an excuse kick him)

As I've said before, Francis,you do excellent miniature work. So much detail is put into each figurine. I like how the words are kinda curvy with the wave on the flags that the soldiers are carrying. You really captured the essence of the fallen soldiers, too.